Math Quotes

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

There are only two kinds of math books: Those you cannot read beyond the first sentence, and those you cannot read beyond the first page.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

There are no sects in geometry.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.